The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the government may not indefinitely imprison immigrants who have been in the United States illegally for years and cannot be deported to their home countries.

The high court's 7-2 ruling was a defeat for the U.S. Justice Departmentwhich said the issue affected more than 2,000 detained immigrants who cannot be deported. Nearly half of them had arrived in the United States illegally from Cuba as part of the 1990 Mariel boatlift.

The court agreed to extend the reach of ruling issued in 2001 that limited detention to a "reasonable period," generally six months. That ruling concerned immigrants who entered the country legally, committed crimes that made them deportable, and then were refused reentry by their home governments.

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Re: Supreme Court Limits Detention of Immigrants

And are you really surprised at this decision????

Crap like this goes on all the time and john Q public just sits there and smiles but what else is there to do???? I really feel we are supporting a lost cause. Everytime we turn around some small part of us is pushed aside and there is not a damn thing we can do about it.I write letters , send e mails to our so called representatives in Government and receive back no reply or a form letter. In a poll I read a short time back , it said, " 78% of Americans polled are for limited immigration and against illegal immigration." The law makers keep ignoring the will of the people , they have in the past , do now and will continue to do so in the future and there is nothing we can do about it. Oh sure , vote them out of office , they are just replaced by someone as crooked as they are.